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In Mass., Brown, Warren wind up for final pitches
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is casting himself as an independent Republican voice and Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren says she'll guarantee women ...
New ad urges Romney supporters to back Akin
A Republican-leaning political group that once opposed Missouri Rep. Todd Akin's Senate bid is launching the biggest ad buy on his behalf since the ...
Justices: Do drug-sniffing dogs pass smell test?
Can you trust what a dog's nose knows? Police do, but the Supreme Court considered Wednesday curbing the use of drug-sniffing dogs in investigations ...
Odd politics as Obama, Christie tour storm damage
Here's an image few probably expected to see six days before Election Day: President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — a Republican ...
Video shows girl crying over presidential contest
The long presidential campaign has made at least one girl cry. In a video released Wednesday that has gone viral across the Internet, a 4-year old ...
Who can fix political gridlock? Poll favors Romney
Just about everybody agrees Washington is a gridlocked mess. But who's the man to fix it? After two years of brawling and brinkmanship between ...
McCaskill renews campaigning after mother's death
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill is back on the campaign trail for the first time after the death of her mother. Betty Anne Ward McCaskill died Monday ...
Advocates: Day care oversight still issue in Texas
Working two jobs to make ends meet, Keisha Brown was looking for affordable, safe child care for her 16-month-old son. After visiting a home day care ...
Guard delivers food, water to flooded NJ city
National Guard troops delivered food and water to residents in this heavily flooded city across from Manhattan on Wednesday as officials sent out a ...
Billionaires, shadowy groups fuel pricey election
Billionaires, anonymous donors and shadowy outside groups funneled enormous amounts of money into this year's federal elections, as the cost of the ...
Airports and stock exchange reopen; NJ devastated
Two major airports reopened and the New York Stock Exchange got back to business Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen ...
GOP TV ad links RI congressman to child molester
House Republicans are airing a TV ad in Rhode Island linking freshman Democratic Rep. David Cicilline to a child molester and a murderer he defended ...
Biden jokes about 2016 presidential bid
Vice President Joe Biden is joking about running for president in 2016. During a visit to a Sarasota, Fla., restaurant on Wednesday, Biden took a ...
Another pro-Romney group to air ads in PA
A Republican-leaning independent group backing presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has launched a $3 million TV ad campaign in Pennsylvania.
Ryan's challenger campaigns against ... no one
Rob Zerban spent his morning on his hands and knees scrubbing a toilet in a homeless shelter. Half a country away, Paul Ryan stood under a spotlight ...
Ryan tells supporters to keep the faith
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, entering the final week of the race for the White House, urged supporters Wednesday not to give up ...
Few housing solutions offered in presidential race
This suburb in a battleground state is pockmarked with half-built subdivisions, foreclosed homes and voters like Leslie Levin. Levin, who retired from ...
Biden calls Romney auto ad an 'outrageous lie'
Vice President Joe Biden is calling advertising released by Republican Mitt Romney "an outrageous lie" for asserting that automakers General Motors ...
THE RACE: Obama hums a GOP tune: US exceptionalism
Locked in a razor-thin battle for re-election, President Barack Obama is adapting a classic Republican tune: American exceptionalism. "Now is the time ...
Campaigns invade other sides' turf
Romney-Ryan signs sit on nearly every block in this southwest Ohio suburb and there's scant trace of support for President Barack Obama.
Political ads gear up for final push of campaign
The campaign ad crush has intensified and expanded in the final week of the presidential contest, with President Barack Obama, Republican challenger ...
Obama goes to FEMA before visit to storm-racked NJ
President Obama is paying a visit to Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters ahead of his trip to New Jersey to see the damage done by ...
Donors with dollars: Top 5 fundraisers for Obama
Chicago is President Barack Obama's kind of town when it comes to top-dollar campaign donations. Windy City media baron Fred Eychaner was a leading ...